Science

What is the scariest real picture of the ocean or anything in it?

1. Sitting on the edge of an underwater cliff

2. A fisherman holding a deep sea Wolf Eel

3. A whale graveyard lies silently as Anna Von Boetticher swims beneath nearly 3 feet of Greenland pack ice. An award-winning photo by Alex Dawson.

4. A blue whale, 75 feet boat for scale

5 . A humpback whale pays a surprise visit to a fishing boat in Monterey Bay, California. Photo by Douglas Croft.

6. The deeper you go, the darker it gets

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